He’s Still Ineligible

Well, Mr. Obama has finally released what he claims is his Hawaii birth certificate. It is a fake. First of all, someone does not spend two years and over two million dollars fighting to keep from releasing a document that, when released, completely backs up his own story. Secondly, the fact that it was only released when a strong contender for the Republican presidential nomination, Donald Trump, made the birth certificate issue one of his key points is more than convenient. Thirdly, this birth certificate was confirmed by a Hawaii elections clerk not to have existed as of 2008.1 Fourthly, there are a number of anomalies on the certificate itself; for example, when compared to a set of birth certificates from twins born at the same hospital the day after Obama was allegedly born there, Obama’s registration number is off, and the address of the hospital is different.2 Fifthly, the father’s race is listed as “African.” In 1961, a black parent would have been listed as a “Negro,” as Obama’s mother was listed as “Caucasian”; the use of “African” is a relatively modern development. In short, two years is more than enough time for the Obama administration to have forged this birth certificate.

But the really ironic thing is that by releasing this birth certificate, Mr. Obama has proven that he is ineligible for the office of U.S. President. You see, whether or not Mr. Obama is Kenyan-born is actually tangential to the real issue, and that is that Barack Obama, Jr., is not a natural born citizen. Being natural born actually has nothing to do with where one is born: there are natural born citizens who are born abroad and non-natural born citizens who are born in America. The issue hinges on who your parents are. Referring back to my post several months ago on Mr. Obama’s proper title:

The office of President of the United States has prerequisites to eligibility too. All the men claiming the title U.S. President, good ones and bad ones, have met these eligibility requirements until 2008. Here is an excerpt from Article 2 Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution:

“No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President”

Not only was Barack Obama born in Kenya, but he had only one parent who was a U.S. citizen. The definition of “natural born Citizen” requires both parents to be U.S. Citizens.

The birth certificate clearly states that Mr. Obama’s father was Barack Obama, Sr., born in Kenya. Obama Sr. was not born a U.S. citizen, never became a U.S. citizen, and in fact returned to and died in Kenya. This means that Mr. Obama Jr. is not a natural born citizen and is thus ineligible for the office of U.S. President.

The birth certificate is a fake, but even if it were not, it merely proves my point: he’s Mr. Obama, notPresident Obama.

Footnotes

Thorin Reynolds grew up in South Carolina and now resides in Texas. He holds an MBA as well as an undergraduate degree in political science. A native southerner, he has ancestors who fought with the patriots in the American Revolution, with the Texans at the Alamo, and with the Confederacy in the War for Southern Independence.

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